The United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UN-ESCAP) Inter governmental meeting on HIV/AIDS and Millennium Development Goals took place in Bangkok from 6th to 8th February, 2012. During the meeting, a side event âThe Gender Agenda: Making HIV Responses Work for Key Affected Women and Girlsâ was held on 7th February, by the Inter Agency Task Team on Gender and HIV/AIDS. At this event, a briefing paper, published by Asia Pacific Coalition of AIDS Service Organizations (APCASO) in collaboration with the Asia Pacific Alliance for Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (APA), has been distributed. The paper titled âWomen and Girls: The 2011 Political Declaration on HIV/AIDS, Civil Society Perspectives on the 2011 HIV/AIDS High Level Meetingâ looks at the 2011 Political Declaration made at the United Nations General Assembly High Level Meeting (HLM) on HIV/AIDS held in New York in 2011